【题目】Frictional Sorting

【时间】2023年3月30日（周四）上午10:00
【地点】文二栋536会议室

【主讲人】梁文泉副教授 （暨南大学经济学院）

【主持人】吴明琴教授  （华南师范大学经济与管理学院）

【摘要】In many countries around the world, migration costs and housing supply restrictions interact with each other and combine to restrict workers’ location decisions. Using an equilibrium sorting model and rich micro data from China, we evaluate the impacts of these dual constraints on workers’ sorting behavior and quantify the resulting changes in aggregate welfare and inequality. We find strong policy interactions between the two kinds of frictions in determining welfare losses and regional inequality. Counterfactual simulations show that lowering migration costs can increase welfare and reduce regional inequality by moving workers from unproductive inland regions to productive coastal regions in China; such welfare and regional distributional impacts depend on the elasticity of housing supply in coastal regions and vice-versa. Results highlight the policy complementarities between reducing the two kinds of frictions and have general implications for countries with different levels of constraints on mobility and housing supply.

【主讲人简介】梁文泉，现为暨南大学经济学院副教授。研究领域为城市劳动经济学，主要关注移民、户籍和城市发展。目前已经在Journal of Environmental Economics and Management、China Economic Review、Journal of Housing Economics等国际期刊以及《中国社会科学》、《经济研究》、《管理世界》、《经济学(季刊)》等国内期刊发表论文多篇，研究成果曾获经济学(季刊)年度最佳论文、第十四届上海青年经济学者优秀成果一等奖。